Detroit Tigers defeat Chicago White Sox, 3-2

Injuries are part of baseball.

For some teams, the biggest part.

If the team is the Detroit Tigers, the equation fits, especially given where the then-healthy Tigers stood in the American League Central on July 11 -- in second place, a half-game behind the first-place White Sox.

Theirs has been a precipitous fall since then as injuries mounted. And yet Sox manager Ozzie Guillen sounded a word of caution before the game Saturday.